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BC Geographical Names

Submitted by Yuri on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 10:10
Description: 

The Gazetteer of British Columbia is a spreadsheet of all official place names, their feature type, feature code, mapsheet, latitude & longitude. The Gazetteer is extracted daily from the BC Geographical Names Information System (BCGNIS), the master database of British Columbia place names.

The Gazetteer of British Columbia is now available free of charge as a Microsoft Excel Comma Separated Values (csv) file. Feature Definitions and a Feature Code & Category Hierarchy are also included as separate attachments, to allow users to customize their own subset of the Gazetteer.

Gazetteer file size is approximately 3 MB.

Email: geographical.names@gov.bc.ca to receive a free electronic copy of the BC Gazetteer.

* GeoBC Geographical Names Website. n.d. Retrieved from the World Wide Web on May 11, 2009 from http://www.ilmb.gov.bc.ca/bcnames/gaz.html

Publisher: 
Government of British Columbia
Descriptive Spatial Extent: 
British Columbia
Bounding Rectangle (North): 
60°
Bounding Rectangle (East): 
-113.5°
Bounding Rectangle (South): 
48°
Bounding Rectangle (West): 
-141°
Time period for which data is relevant: 
up to date of last publication
Name/Organization: 
Janet Mason, Provincial Toponymist, GeoBC, Crown Registries & Geographic Base, Integrated Land Management Bureau
E-mail: 

janet.e.mason@gov.bc.ca

Phone: 
250-952-6572
Mailing address: 
PO Box 9355 STN Prov Govt VICTORIA British Columbia V8W 9M2
Website Address: 

http://www.ilmb.gov.bc.ca/bcnames/

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